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12. Cease Fire


The dawn of a new era.

Written Monday March 9, 2020 / Day 210 / Late Evening


When combatants finally agree to stop fighting - it is a glorious moment.


The war is now over. Hostilities now cease. The prospects of a new life possible for both sides of the conflict.


My arch enemy - the future and I have been fighting a titanic battle. One in which I was in full engagement mode. Anything to do with the future being assigned a target from which my armaments would be launched to totally destroy all that it represented.


My love for my dear wife being the power that sustained such a battle.


The premise that the future would destroy any and all remnants of my past life - a battle cry of the highest proportions. A call to arms to obliterate the threat to the memory of the Iife I had led. The life I considered sanctified, the life I exalted - the one I loved beyond measure because my sweetie was at its core.


Whatever it would take to preserve that which was valued - the catalyst for launching whatever it would take to immobilize that threat.


Today something astounding happened.


A change to something that has been part of my every waking moment of this journey.


Something that I could never see coming.


Until now.


I know it is the result of the amazing week I just experienced (Volume 7 - Essay #11 “One Week”) - the week that has fundamentally changed my journey. The week that has seen amazing, unexpected and unprecedented changes to my very existence.


Today there was a cease-fire.


An end declared to the hostilities.


It is a stunning moment. One which I could never see coming.


It came because the forces of darkness were thwarted. There was a battle that raged on in the emptiness. And God’s love conquered the enemy.


As I knew it always would but never knew exactly how it would take place.


At the cease-fire a declaration was made.


One I could never even imagine just two weeks ago.


The declaration? An invitation for the future. An invitation for the future to come into my life.


To be welcomed.


Not thwarted.


And not just to enter for the sake of entering. No, an invitation to come in.


To take over. To actually step into its rightful place.


To take this life to where it needs to go.


To where God knows it is to go.


I know why I could never see it. The hostilities - as they always do - whatever they are - blind the combatants. They focus only on the conflict - the contention.


Now, with hostilities over - there is a new opportunity. An opportunity for new life.


The invitation to the future now complete.


Come.


Take over.


Lead me to where I should go. To go where you always knew I would go - but could not take me there - until I stopped fighting you.


I have stopped fighting you.


Who knows where we will go?


God always knew.


Now we can go there.


Let the journey continue - let peace lead the way.


Now that the war is over.

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